Description: Affordable housing is at a shortage in Cambridge while commercial construction is booming. Inclusionary zoning would require all developers to build low and moderate income residential units. Harvard University does not want to be subject to linkage regulations. City council meeting. Councillor David Sullivan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/06/1985
Description: Cambridge City Hall exterior. Draper Labs building near Kendall Square. Porter Square Shopping Center sign and Mass. Avenue traffic. Cambridge Common with bare trees. Old newspaper article and photo of Mayor Edward Quinn.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/12/1979
Description: Plight of low-income tenants in Cambridge whose rents increase despite rent control. Tenants join forces to form eviction-free zone. Affordable housing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/05/1988
Description: Propositions are put forth in Cambridge to enable renters to become home owners, involving some exemptions from rent control. Affordable housing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/05/1988
Description: Cambridge passes no smoking ordinance for public spaces and workplaces.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/09/1986
Description: Statue (John Harvard?) on Cambridge Common with snow. Massachusetts Avenue Harvard Square storefronts, Yenching restaurant, J. August Clothier, Harvard Trust, Out of Town News. Solid ice on Charles River, looking across to Prudential and Hancock towers. Long shot of traffic crossing bridge.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/21/1983
Description: Four families inhabit Cambridge building, although landlord will not rent to them, preferring to keep apartments vacant because of rent control. Squatters. Affordable housing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/27/1990
Description: Election results are tabulated by hand in Cambridge. Paper ballots being counted and stamped. Saundra Graham, Barbara Ackermann.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/09/1989
Description: Cambridge, MA environmentals, Porter Square, Mass Ave.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1981
Description: Cameras in the courtroom for the first time. Supreme Judicial Court. Five justices enter and take seats on bench. Chief Justice Edward Hennessey calls first case. Defense attorney John McBride presents appeal of life sentence in murder case Commonwealth v. St. Germain.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1980